Lars Oberhofer

I build hardware and software.

And the interface you use them with. I’m Lars: I studied electrical engineering, then human-computer interaction. Since 2025 I work on AI at ABB Motion in Helsinki.

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T1: a small white rounded box with a round aluminium grille, one dial and one small light

Left and right arrow keys turn T1. Tab to the seam; Enter lifts or lowers the lid.

Render of T1. T1, a voice terminal designed around one dial. Enclosure, electronics and software.

T1, a voice terminal. Drag to turn it, lift the lid to look inside. Open the page →

Render of the Brailly learning cube: a white cube with six blue keys and an orange key on top

Brailly

A tactile cube for learning braille through touch, typing and sound.

Developed with the visually impaired community in Helsinki, tested with visually impaired adults in France, and shown at Maker Faire Rome and Web Summit.

The dashboard’s own code, rendered in October 2026, with the two lamp readings supplied and the tram stops replaced. Started here, it runs in your browser and controls nothing. More about it →

At home

A dashboard I built for a Raspberry Pi touchscreen at home: the time, the next tram, the weather, two lamps, the TV and the news.

Photographs

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A book and feet in the foreground; a camera, plants and an open balcony door beyond
A red timber building beneath a rocky mountain, with wires crossing the sky
Lars Oberhofer, a black-and-white film portrait

About me

I grew up on the wine route in southern Germany and live in Helsinki. I studied electrical engineering in Twente, then human-computer interaction at Aalto and Paris-Saclay.

What I like most is building the electronics myself and then sitting down with the people who use the thing.

Experience, education and skills →